Make SR49 a monument to Darwin Awards.
As you well know, State Highway 49 (The Golden Chain Highway) was to travel across the un-built top of the 2/3rd's completed Auburn Dam and Reservior.
As with the Rancho Seco Nuclear power plant in southern Sacramento County that has two abandoned cooling towers that can be easily seen from the Auburn area, there is a gigantic scar upon the American River canyon from all the millions spent on "dental work" to be the foundation of the state of the art dam.
The design called the "thin arch double curvature" dam that uses the high strength concept of the egg shell to act as a time machine to allow us to visit the water condensed and lifted here from the Pacific by solar power.
It was also designed to protect the Folsom Reservoir from over-topping and flooding the capitol of CA as well as all the miles of levees in the bay-delta as well.
From numerous past conversations with you on this site I know you are well aware of all this but I'm spelling it out here one more time.
I know it's in vain, but this is truly two of the world's most monumental monuments to stupidity ever abandoned due to a Jane Fonda movie and the extremely prejudicial lobbying by the commercial whitewater rafting corporations with their so-called "Not-For-Profit" corporate allies like Friends of the River, et al, that got the Democrats to sink the whole idea in a sea of wrong-headed, wasteful Luddite thinking!!!